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May 10, 1932. c. J. MCCABE ET AL POCKETBOOK TOP Filed Oct. 25, 1929Patented May 10, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHARLES .T. MCCABE, orBRooKL mANn IRVING sonomvnoriz, or canimnunsr, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TMcoABE & SCHOENHOLZ, me, or NEW YORK, N. Y., A- con- PORA'I'ION OF NEWYORK POGKETIBOOK TOP Application filed October 25, 929." Serial No.4o2;4o2l

Our present invention relates" generally to a handbag and a frametherefor and more particularly to the employment of locking means with aframe of the inverted chan nelled type.

In our Patent 1,729,599, granted to us on September 24, 1929, we show ahandbag employing an inverted frame in which the lock operating meansare so associated with the upstanding walls of the frame as to derivesome or all of their yieldability from their manner of association withthese upstanding walls.

One of the objects of the present invention is having this associationof such a character 2 'as will prevent the walls which define each Ichannel from separating or spreading apart.

One of the important features of our invention resides in the simplicityof the frame construction and the advantages it presents both fromthestandpoint of the association of the bag fabric therewith and of thecharacter of the resulting bag when completed.

For the attainment of the foregoing objects and such other objects asmay hereinafter appear or be pointed out,'we have ilview taken on lines3-3 of Figure 1 with the handbag fabric shown in, dotted lines;

Figure 4 is a top plan elevation looking down upon the frame of Figure1;

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the bag employing the frame of Figure1.

Upon viewing the drawing of Figure 1, it will be observed that ourinvention is illustrated as embodied in a frame structure adapted toprovide a handbag having an inner compartment and an outer compartment,although it will be understood that the present invention is directedspecificallyrto the frame for the outer compartment and the handbagemploying it. p

The reference character 10, is applied in 7 material (see of Figure 5)is caused at Figure 1, to the main or outer frame and referencecharacter 11, to the inner frame. a

The frame 10, as shown more clearly in'Figures 2, 3and 4-, comprises thetwo U-sha ed members 15 and 16, each pivoted at the rec ends of the legsof the U to the aligned pins 18. Each of the frame members 15 and'16 ofthe main frame is in the form of'a metal stamping, and 'U-shaped incross-section as shown more clearly in Figure '3 to provide inner andouter upstanding walls 20 and 21,

and a bottom'22. The channel 23, formed in each frame between thesewalls and :bottom, it will be observed; extend upwardly and outwardlyfor purposes that will be hereinafter more fully pointed out. o

Securedto'the outer wall 21, of the channel 23, in each of these framemembers 15 and 16 and preferably at apoint substantially midway 'oftheconnecting web or bottom 22 of the U is an upstanding lock operatingmember 24 or 25. These members operate the interengaginglockingfportions 26'and 27 which in the illustrative embodiment areassociated ther'ewithilsee Figure 1) and" serve as the means for holdingthe two frame members1'5 and 16, in closed position. The application ofpressure to the members 24 and 25 in opposite directionswill cause thelock-i ing members 26 and 27 to spring past each other eitherin openingor closing the frame The inner frame structure 11, is formed 7 of'twoframe members, "also each generally in the form of a U and also eachpivoted a the free ends of ,theilegs of the Upon the aligned pins18;which pins are made, suffi- 'ciently long to serve asbearings for thelegs of both frames; The lock operating members 24 and 25, are eachillustrated inlthe drawings as in the form of openfr'ames,the advantageof which will be'well understood. f 1 V In the manufacture of thebag,the bag its upper endto engage about the outer surface and over thetop of the outer walls 21 of the channels 23, of the outer; frame mem-"her and the free upper edges thereof forced or passed intothechannels'23 and secured supported each from one of the walls oftheframe, each lock operating member is in fact a yielding support so asto permit of a spring operation of the locking members 26 and 27. As aresult of this, the members 24 and 25 can be constructed both as'to thecharacter and thickness of material and as to contours withoutnecessitating that the spring action be-inherent in them.

I The inner frame.11,is, as already set forth, of the more or lessconventional type and the fabric is'secured thereto in any desiredorpreferred manner, to form the inner container. of the handbag and asthemanner of the construction of the'inner pockethas no bearing upon ourinvention, no further description thereof'is believed to be necessary. aV

In Figure .5, of the drawings, we have shown in perspective a finishedhandbag employing the frame-structure of Figure 1 and it will beunderstood from the description of the construction of the outer framemembers. 15 and 16, and of. the manner in which the material of theouterbag is associated therewith, and of the relationship theretoof theposition of the lock operating. members .24 and 25, and the desiredresults are at- -tained.

- Having thusdescribed our invention and illustratedits use, what weclaim as new and desire, to secure by Letters Patent is+ 1. A handbagframe comprising U-shaped members hinged to each other at the .free

ends of the legs of the U, each member being in theform of a stampingchanneledinward- 1y to'provideopposed spaced inner and outer wallsextending upwardly and outwardly and an upwardly and outwardly extendingchannel therebetween, whereby the upper and outer endsof the handbagfabric can be passed over the outer surfaces of the outer Walls of thechannels and over the top edges of such walls and secured in position insuch channel, locking members for securing said frame members againstseparation and operating members therefor, all carried by the said outerwalls, said operating members extending upwardly from and substantiallyin the plane of the outer walls the locking members and the operatingmembers therefor presenting the channels substantially unob structedwhereby said outer walls add to the resiliency of the lock operatingmembers when in locked association and the lock operating members tendto prevent the spreading ofthe opposed walls of eachchannel. I

3. -A handbag frame comprising U-shaped members hinged to each other atthe free ends of the le s of the U, each member being in the form of astamping channeled inwardly to provideopposed spaced inner and outerwalls eiitending upwardly and outwardly and an upwardly and outwardlyextending channel therebetween, locking members for securing said framemembers against separation and operating members therefor, all carriedby the said outer walls, said operating members extending upwardlybeyond the upper edges of the outer walls, and handbag fabric passedover the upper edges of and about the outer walls and into the channelsand presenting the channels substantially unobstructed whereby saidouter walls add to the resiliency of the lock operating members and the'lock'operating members when in locked association tend to prevent thespreading of the opposite walls of each channel.

In witness whereof we have signed and sealed this specification.

venlistees J. MCCABE. IRVING SOHOENHOLZ.

passed over the outer surfaces of the outer I walls of the channels andover'the top edges 7 of such walls and secured in position in suchchannel, locking members for holding said frame members againstseparation and operating members therefor, all operatively; as-

sociated with the said outer walls, and presenting the channelssubstantially unobstructed whereby said outer walls addto the resiliencyof the; lock operating members and jthelock operating memberswheninloclred association tend to prevent the spreading ofIthe-opposedwalls of each channel.

2. A handbag. frame comprising U- sh aped members hinged to each otherat the free e ds of'tlie egspr the; U, each memberbeing

